man7.org > Linux > man-pages

Linux/UNIX system programming training

dh_installmenu(1) — Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | OPTIONS | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON 

DH_INSTALLMENU(1)               Debhelper               DH_INSTALLMENU(1)

NAME         top

       dh_installmenu - install Debian menu files into package build
       directories

SYNOPSIS         top

       dh_installmenu [debhelper options] [-n]

DESCRIPTION         top

       dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for
       installing files used by the Debian menu package into package
       build directories.

       It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands
       needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These commands
       are inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1).

FILES         top

       debian/package.menu
           Debian menu files, installed into usr/share/menu/package in
           the package build directory. See menufile(5) for its format.

       debian/package.menu-method
           Debian menu method files, installed into
           etc/menu-methods/package in the package build directory.

OPTIONS         top

       -n, --no-scripts
           Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.

SEE ALSO         top

       debhelper(7) update-menus(1) menufile(5)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR         top

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the debhelper (helper programs for
       debian/rules) project.  Information about the project can be found
       at [unknown -- if you know, please contact man-pages@man7.org] If
       you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
       submit@bugs.debian.org.  This page was obtained from the project's
       upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.
       (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
       in the repository was 2025-08-10.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
       a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

13.23                           2025-01-02              DH_INSTALLMENU(1)

Pages that refer to this page: debhelper(7)

HTML rendering created 2025-09-06 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface.

For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here.

Hosting by jambit GmbH.

Cover of TLPI